Andrea Gillies

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  • Оля Романоваhas quoted7 years ago
    We must get on and live life,” he says, “not just because life is brief, but because our understanding may be briefer.
  • Оля Романоваhas quoted7 years ago
    Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and
    happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is
    forever flowing through one’s head.
    Mark Twain
  • Оля Романоваhas quoted7 years ago
    think with
    Nothing to love or link with
    The anaesthetic from which none come round.
  • Оля Романоваhas quoted7 years ago
    This is what we fear – no sight, no sound
    No touch or taste or smell, nothing to
  • Оля Романоваhas quoted7 years ago
    Like being a parent, being a carer is fraught with expectations, duties and blame
  • Оля Романоваhas quoted7 years ago
    But I’ve always liked buildings with a strong sense of identity. Houses that don’t need you, their character
  • Оля Романоваhas quoted7 years ago
    I go there hoping for, at the least, the experience of a kind of self-dilution, but instead the strip of sand becomes just another venue for the things that bothered me at home.
  • Оля Романоваhas quoted7 years ago
    came looking for inspiration (for work, yes, but also for life) as something concrete (the quality of the view) – something engulfing and omnipresent (the quality and shape of clouds), all of which is just outside the door and there at whim. It wasn’t really about clouds, of course, or views
  • Оля Романоваhas quoted7 years ago
    Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness, I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
    Aaron Copland
  • Оля Романоваhas quoted7 years ago
    We live in an age-defying, mortality-denying culture. We don’t believe in ourselves as elderly. We’re interested in cancer and the carcinogenic because those are words that might turn out to apply to the 38-year-old as much as the 78-year-old: cancer afflicts the young and rich and fit. If Alzheimer’s equals old age, then that’s something we’ll deal with later
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